RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON CROSS-SITE BROWSING ACTIVITIES OF USERS
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Abstract
A system provides recommendations of web sites, web pages, and/or products to a user based on web pages viewed during a current browsing session. In one embodiment, a browser plug-in or other client program monitors and reports information regarding browsing activities of users across multiple web sites. The resulting cross-site browse histories of the users are analyzed on an aggregated basis to detect behavior-based associations between particular sites, pages and/or products. The detected associations are in turn used to provide personalized recommendations to users. The associations and recommendations may also be based on an automated analysis of the content of the web pages represented in the users'"'"' browse histories.
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33 Claims
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15. A computer-implemented method of selecting products to recommend to users, the method comprising:
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receiving, over a network from a user computing device, identifiers of a plurality of web pages accessed by the user computing device across a plurality of web sites, said plurality of web pages including at least a first web page of a first web site and a second web page of a second web site, identifying a plurality of products represented on one or more of said plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of products are identified based at least partly on a content-based analysis of the web pages, said content-based analysis performed by automatically retrieving and analyzing content of the web pages; and selecting additional products to recommend to a user of the user computing device based at least partly on the identified plurality of products. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A system, comprising:
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a client component that runs on user computing devices of users, and causes said user computing devices to transmit clickstream data over a network, said clickstream data reflective of browsing activities of the users across a plurality of web sites, and including URLs of web pages and web sites accessed by the users; a data repository that accumulates the clickstream data received from the user computing devices; and a computer system operative to use the clickstream data accumulated for a user to identify a plurality of products viewed by the user across multiple web sites, and to select, based on said plurality of products, additional products to recommend to the user, wherein the computer system identifies the products viewed by the user at least partly by retrieving and analyzing web pages represented in the clickstream data. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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